Games like Red Balloon
If Red Balloon is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Mare of Jonah, Wordless Forest and Back：Fade — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Red Balloon: A first-person psychological horror experience. Explore, solve puzzles, and make decisions as you descend through 66 levels to save your little brother. How far are you willing to descend for him?
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The Mare of Jonah
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Top pick for Red Balloon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Balloon.
A first-person psychological horror game where a young boy is trapped in a haunted, decaying mansion. Run, hide, and outsmart vengeful spirits as you uncover dark, twisted secrets. Can you survive the nightmare that waits in every shadow?
Wordless Forest
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Red Balloon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Balloon.
You are alone in the forest. You remember nothing. In this live-action interactive survival thriller, the story is written not by dialogue, but by your choices.
Back：Fade
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Red Balloon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Balloon.
《Back：Fade》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy ！！！！ The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.
Hazing - Night Shift
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Ranked #4 for Red Balloon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Red Balloon.
A young police officer arrives at a country house after a disturbing call... This VHS tape captures the horrors that happened to him.
规则怪谈：盛崖小区
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Red Balloon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Balloon.
这是一款怪谈类剧情游戏。在宏大的原创世界观下你需要一步步探索盛崖小区的“全貌”，你能做到仅仅是依靠“规则”在这里觅得一线生机。你可以假装无事发生，安然度日；也可以想尽办法，逃出生天；或许你也可以直面它，成为它的一部分……但无论如何，请你记住，保持理智，遵守规则。
Lost Luminosity
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Ranked #6 for Red Balloon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Balloon.
The inheritance following his mother’s death turns into a series of mysterious events for Sam. Neighbors are complaining about strange noises and unexplained phenomena in the empty apartment. Intrigued, he decides to investigate what’s going on there himself.
V696
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Ranked #7 for Red Balloon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Red Balloon.
V696 is a first-person horror-thriller game. It contains a cult subject of veiled beings. Even if everything seems clear at first glance, it has a gripping story that will throw you a curve.
Heart of the Forest
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Ranked #8 for Red Balloon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Balloon.
An ill-fated hiking trip spirals into a chilling fight for survival in this interactive psychological horror movie, inspired by centuries-old tales of vengeful spirits from Germany’s Black Forest.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Red Balloon.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Red Balloon.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Red Balloon.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Balloon.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Balloon.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Red Balloon.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Red Balloon.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Balloon.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Red Balloon
- What games are most similar to Red Balloon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Red Balloon are The Mare of Jonah, Wordless Forest, Back：Fade.
- Who developed Red Balloon?
- Red Balloon was developed by Tenzou Studio.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Red Balloon.
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